Day of Saturday 12 October
Taken. Both days qualify; the rule is silent, and this one is covered longer.
06:25 sunrisesunset 17:44
Daśamī begins 13:29:00
06:0108:0110:0112:0114:0116:0118:01
255 of 679 minutes covered, the last 255
Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2024
Boundaryin Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Both days qualify and the rule does not say which to take. Say “contested”.
A tick is five ghaṭīs, two hours. The day time is sunrise to sunset.
Day of Saturday 12 October
Taken. Both days qualify; the rule is silent, and this one is covered longer.
255 of 679 minutes covered, the last 255
Day of Sunday 13 October
Qualifies with 32 of 676 minutes. Not taken.
32 of 676 minutes covered, the first 32
Aṅga
Daśamī runs from 13:29 on Sat 12 Oct to 11:39 on Sun 13 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 07:55 on Sat 12 Oct to 06:58 on Sun 13 Oct. They are together from 13:29 on Sat 12 Oct to 06:58 on Sun 13 Oct.
2024-10-12T05:29:01Z → 2024-10-12T22:57:43Z
Kāla
The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:25–17:44 on the 12th, 06:26–17:42 on the 13th.
daytime: sunrise-to-sunset · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′
Rule
Where Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time, that day is taken. Together they cover 255 of 679 minutes on the 12th and 32 of 676 on the 13th.
Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104
Tie-break
Both days qualify and the rule marks neither. The one covered longer is ruled, as a boundary.
priority: unstated → greater-coverage · margin 1912 s
Ruling
Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2024: Saturday 12 October.
confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)
In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2024 falls on Saturday 12 October. Daśamī runs from 13:29 on Sat 12 Oct to 11:39 on Sun 13 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 255 minutes. They are together in the day time on the next day too, for 32 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the day they share longer is ruled: treat the date as contested.
| Authority | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Ahargaṇa, pac-rp | This ruling | Sat 12 Oct |
| Ahargaṇa, classical | Disc centre, no refraction | Sat 12 Oct |
| compat-drikpanchang | Comparison profile | Sat 12 Oct |
| No institution has a recorded ruling for Baoding. | ||
Institutional rulings are recorded with a source address, and are never edited to agree.
/rules/vijaya-dashami · ruleset 2026.3-draft
“S 10 Vijaya dasami (In Bengal it is observed as paraviddha, covering one muhurta from sunrise. In other places, if it touches Sravana naksatra in the day time it is observed on that day), Sarasvati visarjana (to be observed in naksatra Sravana), Dasahara.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104. The Bengal reading (paraviddha, one muhūrta from sunrise) is not applied.
Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.
| Place | Daśamī with Śravaṇa | Sunrise 12th | Covered | Sunrise 13th | Covered | Ruled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles | 22:29 → 15:58 | 06:57 | 541 min | 06:57 | 0 min | 12 Oct |
| Chicago | 00:29 → 17:58 | 07:00 | 657 min | 07:02 | 0 min | 12 Oct |
| Jersey City | 01:29 → 18:58 | 07:05 | 674 min | 07:06 | 0 min | 12 Oct |
| Port of Spain | 01:29 → 18:58 | 05:55 | 715 min | 05:55 | 0 min | 12 Oct |
| London | 06:29 → 23:58 | 07:20 | 652 min | 07:22 | 0 min | 12 Oct |
| Durban | 07:29 → 00:58 | 05:21 | 635 min | 05:20 | 0 min | 12 Oct |
| Dubai | 09:29 → 02:58 | 06:16 | 505 min | 06:16 | 0 min | 12 Oct |
| Delhi | 10:59 → 04:28 | 06:20 | 415 min | 06:21 | 0 min | 12 Oct |
| Kolkata | 10:59 → 04:28 | 05:32 | 374 min | 05:33 | 0 min | 12 Oct |
| Singapore | 13:29 → 06:58 | 06:49 | 324 min | 06:48 | 9 min | 12 Oct |
| Sydney | 16:29 → 09:58 | 06:18 | 157 min | 06:17 | 221 min | 13 Oct |
| Suva | 17:29 → 10:58 | 05:40 | 37 min | 05:39 | 319 min | 13 Oct |